Timeline for Why the Dearth of Wishes at the end of Aladdin?
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| Nov 16, 2017 at 18:44 | comment | added | dsollen | Reminds me of a brief omaka from Harry Potter and the Methods Of Rationality. Skip down to Jasmine and the Lamp: hpmor.com/chapter/64 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 23, 2015 at 17:47 | answer | added | Daniel Jackson | timeline score: -4 | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 15:14 | answer | added | Gomes | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | David Conrad | I thought that was just 10 XOR 91; you know, 81. }^> | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 16:29 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | Yes, why wish for 10^91 when 10^60 is easily good enough to cause the Big Crunch? | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Valorum | @ThePopMachine - I bow to your maths skills. Either way, it's a bad idea to wish for that amount of stuff. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 16:25 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @Richard: You clearly don't understand how exponents work. By my rough calculation, that would weight between 10^70 and 10^75 Ayers rocks. In fact, it is around 10^33 times the mass of the observable universe. This is one thousand trillion trillion trillion. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 15:38 | comment | added | Geobits | @Raystafarian They don't become void, since Jafar "owns" the lamp before Aladdin makes his third wish (and he still only has one wish remaining, so they don't "reset" either). | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | Raystafarian | Wait, if the lamp becomes owned by someone else, do the wishes remain with the previous owner? Can they be used during a different ownership? Do they become void? | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:20 | answer | added | Pixelomo | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:15 | comment | added | Brian S | I think it's worth noting that in the sequels and related media that take place after the movie, the Genie comes back to hang out with his friend and continues to use his magic to help out. This time, it's of his own free will, though. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 10:44 | comment | added | Kevin | The whole moral in the story is that procrastenating something you have to do for someone else is not the way to go. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 10:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/520515291415998465 | ||
| Oct 10, 2014 at 7:47 | comment | added | Valorum | For the record, 10 to the power of 91 stackable animal toys would weigh about as much as 10000000 Ayers Rocks, instantly killing everyone in the Middle East. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 7:23 | answer | added | Shisa | timeline score: 66 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 7:05 | comment | added | geometrian | @Shisa: if Aladdin still frees the genie in the end, fulfilling his promise, he hasn't gone against his word. I hardly think the genie would resent five more minutes of doing his job after 10,000 years alone--especially when the act of so doing would make all of Aladdin's friends happier and costs the genie nothing. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 6:58 | comment | added | Shisa | Because if you go back on your promise to free somebody from slavery/prison and instead extend that imprisonment for your own kicks, you are probably not a great person, and definitely not that somebody's friend. By the end of the movie, Aladdin and Genie are friends. Friends don't do that to each other. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 6:21 | comment | added | Valorum | Power corrupts and any future wishes may have an impact on his ability or desire to free the genie. Better to do it now then wait for maybe. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 4:58 | history | asked | geometrian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |